Steve Bruce was a guy you would always want in your team. That's Steve Bruce the batsman, not Steve Bruce the Hull City manager who's still lucky to have a job after his team were relegated from the English Premier League.The two Bruces could easily have been mistaken. They were born only a few years apart and shared a similar build - beefy and always battling the beef, to the extent that Bruce the batsman developed diabetes later in life.A few years before diabetes and a dicky heart claimed his life in 2013, Bruce the batsman was the victim of an assault that cost him six teeth, a few broken ribs, put him in a state of diabetic shock and landed him in a state hospital.Little is known about the attack, but it is hard to believe that Bruce provoked it, outnumbered as he was, two to one.Bruce was not an offensive bloke. In fact, it might have been that his very inoffensiveness prevented him from becoming more consistent than his five centuries and 14 half-centuries in 15 years and 67 games of first-class cricket. He certainly had the ability.He was a good companion, however. Dressing-rooms were better places for his presence and batting partners could depend on him at the crease.So it was no surprise that after his attack, friends, teammates and those who knew him only marginally, rallied to help by getting him to an institution where he could be properly treated and have the wherewithal to pursue his attackers through the courts.Among those who led the charge to help Bruce, whose medical costs had soared to R120000 - money he did not have - was the Sport Legends Trust.The trust is run by former sportsmen who use their contacts, their public profiles and their altruism to help old comrades-in-arms now less privileged. Among those it is helping is Piston van Wyk, a legendary Springbok hooker from the 1970s who is in poor shape and finding today's medical costs way beyond him.The founder of the trust is Bossie Clarke, the Chuck Norris of South African rugby who was shamefully left off the Springbok team roster for the tour to New Zealand in 1981. Thirty-four years later it is still a mystery how the selectors preferred Darius Botha, brother of Naas and an appie predikant who was renowned as much for his piety as for his utter mediocrity as an international winger.Bossie and other former top sportsmen are the driving force to help those in need. They cannot do this on their own, so one of the ways in which they raise funds is through golf days. The next one is on July 28 at Houghton Golf Club, a few days after the Springboks take on the All Blacks at Ellis Park.It will cost you a bit to play, but will be a lot cheaper than sleeping on the streets of Sandton, and you might even get to be in a four-ball with, say, Ray Mordt, one of the greatest wings in Bok rugby history. And you will be able to ask him what it was like to score a hat-trick of tries against the All Blacks.Or you could play with Frik du Preez, or even Bossie himself. It is as easy as mailing Gwen at gwen@sportlegends-trust.co.za..